Hey Gerson

Here's something for your white Catholic folks whining about Obama going to Notre Dame to chew on:

As early as the mid-1950s, decades before the clergy sexual-abuse crisis broke publicly across the U.S. Catholic landscape, the founder of a religious order that dealt regularly with priest sex abusers was so convinced of their inability to change that he searched for an island to purchase with the intent of using it as a place to isolate such offenders, according to documents recently obtained by NCR.

Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Servants of the Paracletes, an order established in 1947 to deal with problem priests, wrote regularly to bishops in the United States and to Vatican officials, including the pope, of his opinion that many sexual abusers in the priesthood should be laicized immediately.

So the Church has known of this problem in the United States (and certainly not the US alone) for more than six decades.

Yet, it's Obama doing EXACTLY what he campaigned on (and which the majority of the country, including Catholics agrees with) that is the problem.

Yep, they're Republicans alright.

God forbid Gerson who supports a witch-hunting mass-murder enabling pastor as well as K-Lo and other assorted self-proclaimed holier than thou Catholics consider actual problems like oh, the Catholic Church willfully covering up for pedophiles.

BTW, who was the person highest in the hierarchy of the global Catholic Church for handling pedophilia allegations?

Why none other than the present Popenfuhrer.

And his recommendation?

Cover it up and protect the Church from the victims.

[H]e issued an order ensuring the church's investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.

The order was made in a confidential letter, obtained by The Observer, which was sent to every Catholic bishop in May 2001.

It asserted the church's right to hold its inquiries behind closed doors and keep the evidence confidential for up to 10 years after the victims reached adulthood. The letter was signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected as John Paul II's successor last week.